Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held captive for nine months when she was just 14, has revealed she thinks there is a 'great chance' that missing British girl Madeleine McCann is still alive. Speaking with Anderson Cooper, Ms Smart said she believ

An American girl, who was kidnapped at the age of 14 from her home and held captive for nine months, discussed her ordeal on Friday saying that she 'felt dirty and filthy and worthless' when the captor declared that she was his 'wife' and raped her. In a

Tells audience she begged kidnapper to leave her body for family to findBut she knew she had to escape to repay her mother's love, she says Elizabeth Smart yesterday talked of her torment after being kidnapped by a drifter who held her captive for nine m

Elizabeth Smart spoke candidly on Friday about how she felt after she was kidnapped at age 14, and repeatedly raped. Smart, now 24, was the guest speaker at the Law Day Luncheon sponsored by the Palm Beach County Bar Association in Florida, where she rec

WEST PALM BEACH — It's hard to get past the lurid details of the Elizabeth Smart story. Kidnapped at age 14 out of her bed by a man who claimed God had commanded him to do so, she could easily have become little more than an object of pity and voyeurism,

Almost 10 years after her own kidnap nightmare, Elizabeth Smart opened up about her harrowing experience and the abuse she endured at the hands of her captor to a crowd of 700 people at the Child Protection Awareness Event. Now 24, the Utah native was 14